About Jonathan Meese

Compelling, urgent, and controversial, Jonathan Meese tackles unsettling aspects of German political history, adopting then rejecting ideological symbols by stripping them of meaning. A self-proclaimed cultural exorcist, he is the successor to Martin Kippenberger as the iconoclast of the 21st century.
Born in 1970 in Tokyo, Meese is at home with painting, sculpture, performance or installation based work. He never finished his… Read more